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You May be Our Next Cartter Scholar

Baylor names four Cartter Scholars annually, providing boarding scholarships to students new to Baylor. The awards are available to rising ninth and tenth grade students: one full-tuition, one half-tuition, and two quarter-tuition scholarships are awarded annually and remain in force through the students' time at Baylor.

Criteria

Nominees should demonstrate academic excellence as well as a breadth of interest outside the classroom, including athletics, arts and/or community service. Baylor also pays attention to the nominees’ capacity for leadership in and out of the classroom.

Nomination Process

Prospective scholarship candidates can be nominated by anyone other than their parents, immediate family, or current members of the Baylor faculty or staff. Once students are nominated, the Baylor admission department will contact them and request the application materials required to complete the scholarship application:

The student must be nominated no later than Jan. 14, 2019. An essay topic is assigned when the nomination is announced.

In addition to the nomination, an application for admission to Baylor along with the required supporting materials, including two additional letters supporting the student’s nomination, must be completed by Jan. 21, 2019.

Cartter Scholars Weekend - Mar. 8-9, 2019

From the nominees, the school will invite 12 to 16 finalists to Cartter Scholars Weekend at the beginning of March, when the finalists will be interviewed by a panel of Baylor faculty members before winners are announced the third week in March.

In addition to the annual scholarship winners, all finalists for the award automatically become members of the Baylor Harris-Stanford Honors Program if and when they enroll in the school.

Our Cartter Scholars

Baylor’s Cartter Scholars have been actors, athletes, dancers, debaters, outdoors enthusiasts, writers, mathematicians, student government officers, singers and scientists. They have gone on to college at Harvard, Berkeley, North Carolina, MIT, Georgetown, Sewanee and Stanford among many others. They have hailed from Colorado to Connecticut and Indiana to Texas. They have been male and female, reflecting diverse personal backgrounds and world views. What they have had in common are academic aptitude, the desire to achieve excellence and a passion for self-discovery. They have left their marks on Baylor, and Baylor has become a part of them.

HARRIS-STANFORD Honors PROGRAM

Membership to the Harris-Stanford Honors Program includes ninth and tenth grade boarding students who have been admitted as Cartter Scholars Program recipients and finalists. Modeled after college honors programs, the Harris-Stanford Program partners with local, regional and national organizations to provide extraordinary civic engagement, learning and leadership opportunities for motivated students. For more information, click here.